Personal Notation Styles in Breaking: Performance, Identity, and Perspective

Authors

  • Joshua Swamy York University
  • Mary Fogarty Woehrel The Department of Dance, School of Art, Media, Performance and Design, York University

Abstract

This article outlines the personal notation systems/practices of b-boys in Toronto, Canada.

Author Biographies

Joshua Swamy, York University

Joshua Swamy is an MA student in the Department of Dance at York University, and a self-taught breaker from Pickering, Ontario. While completing an undergraduate degree in philosophy, he continued dancing as a pastime. His studies focus on oppressed identities and the space they have within academic dance. 

Mary Fogarty Woehrel, The Department of Dance, School of Art, Media, Performance and Design, York University

Mary Fogarty Woehrel is the Graduate Program Director in Dance Studies (MA/PhD) and an associate professor in the Department of Dance at York University, Toronto, Canada. She has written about music, film and dance and is most well-known for her ethnographic research about international breaking scenes that appears under the name Mary Fogarty. Her most recent publication is "Why are Breaking Battles Judged?" in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition and her work can also be found in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music, Continuum, Music and Arts in Action, and Ageing and Youth Cultures: Music, Style and Identity, among other publications.

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Published

2019-07-02

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019): Backspace: A Special Issue on Dance Studies

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